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It's a market economy. Apparently the demand for great coaches exceeds the supply, so of course the price of good coaches is going to be high. -- Michael Gartner
Growing up as an athlete, I started skating very young. My parents didn't know anything about the sport, so they went with the flow. I had two great coaches who gave great advice and gave guidelines for my parents. My parents let the coaches dictate what was going on on the ice. -- Kristi Yamaguchi
You build your program from the ideas of great coaches. -- Don Meyer
I've been lucky enough to be around some great coaches, all the way from Pop Warner to now. -- Andrew Luck
A lot of guys go through their whole careers and don't win a championship, but are still great coaches. -- Chuck Daly
You learn from everybody. You learn from the players. You learn from great coaches. You learn from great teams -- Tom Thibodeau
I think no one has written a history of the great coaches who were around 30 to 40 years ago who taught the fundamentals. -- Oscar Robertson
Most of what I learned about baseball came from great coaches, beginning with my father, then Bob [Buchelle], when I`d made it into the seated row of Little League in [Dorchester], then Dan Burke, [John Balfe], the great Henry Lane. -- Donald Trump
I got cast playing the best baseball player anybody's ever seen. I don't know how to play any sport, including baseball, but I trained really hard. They had these great coaches, and they started saying, "Wow, you have some like really untapped athletic ability." -- Geena Davis
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After a while, your coaching development ceases to be about finding newer ways to organize practice. In other words, you soon stop collecting drills. Your development as a coach shifts to observing how great coaches teach, motivate, lead, and drive players to performances at higher and higher levels -- Anson Dorrance
I was doing all the coaching schools so that I'd be able to stay in the game, and I gave myself a chance by doing that. I was only an average player, could score a goal or two, that sort of thing, but I wasn't a Bobby Charlton or a Messi, or Ronaldo. There are very, very few really great players who have become great coaches. -- Alex Ferguson
Nobody thought I would be a great coach. -- Rick Majerus
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My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet. -- Dan Gable
My coach was a great politician, so he did most of the work. He was good. -- Dorothy Hamill
You can have great players, but if they don't want to be coached, what are you going to do? -- Scott Brooks
If you've got aspirations to be a manager or coach, obviously coaching your country would be a great honour. -- Gary Speed
My family has always been there to support me along the way. My coach, John Nicks, is a great influence. -- Sasha Cohen
I've got a great support system, starting with my wife and family, to my agent, my instructor, and my mental coach. -- Zach Johnson
Dad was the pitching coach, while Mom was the emotional supporter. Her unconditional love was great, and she wanted what was best for me. -- Jennie Finch
Chuck Daly was a man and a coach who everyone had great respect for, and to be recognized in his memory is very special. -- Tom Heinsohn
I got to work for some great administrators at great institutions, and I had an opportunity to coach great players. Iowa is no different. -- Steve Alford
I've cut my teeth as a coach with some great head coaches and some great co-workers and I have been very lucky to have learned a lot of football from all of the above. -- Mike Tice
Pittsburgh was a great team. Coach Noll, Joe Greene, Jack Lambert, L.C. Greenwood and all those guys did a great job. That's the team that kept us from winning two Super Bowls. It was a great rivalry. -- Earl Campbell
William McKinley Oswald was my high school football coach. He was a great coach and had a profound influence on my life. But I think he could have learned his method of motivating players from an army drill sergeant. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
Football is such a team sport, so no one individual does it. No one coach or no one assistant coach or no one player, it's a great team sport, so I don't get carried away with a bunch of accolades. -- Jimmy Johnson
I have an incredible amount of basketball knowledge, and I think a lot of that is derived from having a Hall of Fame college basketball coach who was very knowledgeable of the game and I had a great high school coach who was also very knowledgeable. -- Alonzo Mourning
True basketball coaches are great teachers and you do not humiliate, you do not physically go after, you do not push or shove, you do not berate, if you are a true coach. If you humiliate or curse them, that won't do it. Coaches like that are not coaches. -- Morgan Wootten
Back in Romania, always I was struggling to compete with Vladislav Rastorotsky, the great Russian coach of Lyudmila Turishcheva. He was a powerful coach, internationally. I took him like the major challenge of my life, and pretty soon I'm beating him and we are pushing each other so hard, so fierce. But out of the arena, we are friends. -- Bela Karolyi
The best teachers coach their students and the best coaches are great teachers. -- Grant Teaff
On good teams coaches hold players accountable, on great teams players hold players accountable -- Joe Dumars
The first great chess players, including the world champion, got by perfectly well without constant coaches. -- Anatoly Karpov
Great coaches are visionaries. Great coaches instill, nurture, and encourage vision, then model and motivate surrender to it. -- Thomas G. Bandy
Great football coaches have the vision to see, the faith to believe, the courage to do - and 25 great players. -- Marv Levy
Great coaches are great humanitarians. They really care for the athlete as people first and athletes second. This is paramount in gaining respect. -- Gordie Gillespie
My job is to teach them to believe they could perform better than they realize. Great coaches teach athletes to go beyond the barriers. -- John Roderick
There was no publicity. You had to like it. There was no pressure, just great competition. The attitude of the coaches and players was exceptional. -- Jim Brown
From the coaches on down, especially Jim Corsi whose been a great supporter, a true friend who really cares about his players and allowed me the chance to develop. -- Ryan Miller
Great coaches do not tell people what to think. They point people in the right direction to find the answers. This self-restraint is one of the most difficult challenges of leadership. -- Thomas G. Bandy

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